Technical problems affected telephone service across Atlantic Canada Wednesday morning and prevented 9-1-1 calls from functioning properly in the region.
Bell Aliant spokeswoman Isabelle Boulet said a network switch failure in Moncton disrupted wireless and land line calls across the Atlantic provinces.
She said service was interrupted for a couple of hours.
A network team continues to investigate the outage, she added.
Police departments posted notices on social media with alternate phone numbers to call in case of emergency.
New Brunswick RCMP tweeted that a public Alert Ready message had been requested, but telephone service was restored before it was sent out.
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